Best James Earl Jones Quotes
- Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. All
- It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family… Acknowledge
- My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other… Ability
- My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to… Began
- I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. Ever Want
- I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other. Ambled
- People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually. Idea
- When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to… Ability
- Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy. Acting
- Actors never discuss future plans. Actor
- I consider myself a novice film actor. Actor
- I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing. Actor
- I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well. Commercials
- I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? Peasant
- I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know. Big
- I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones. American
- In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia. Ambrosia
- My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college. College
- Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. Big
- So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department. Department
- Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. Aspect
- Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype. Avoid
- I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised… Agriculture
- I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would… Adopted
- So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute… Continued